《大学基础英语》教案（英文）Book 3 Unit 5 Teaching plan.docx

1、Unit FiveI. Objectives To learn how to organize an argumentative piece of writing; To listen to and read some material about the telephone so as to learn some useful words and expressions related.II. Teaching Emphases and Difficulties:1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I;2. New words and

2、expressions:pose, suspense, irritate, asphyxiated, ventilate, fidget, indiscreet, chatterbox, elope, obstinacy, willfulness, escapism, justify, tycoon, aptitude, stumble, for a start, turn a deaf ear to, ex-directoryIII. Teaching Procedures: (7 teaching hours)Warming up (15 minutes):Read the followi

3、ng quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for wha( our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.Stephen Jay GouldThere is something about saying

4、"Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling (hat he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time.Robert BenchleyMiddle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone

5、 rings and you hope it isn't fbr you.Ogden NashUtility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three 一 and paradise is when you have none.Doug Lit rsonThe telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.Fran LebowitzTe

6、chnology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.Carrie P. Snow -proof is often used in a combination with other words or as a suffix indicating able to withstand sth., for instance, waterproof, fireproof, breakage proof.4. Jell-O Puddin

7、g Snackfamous snack brand name in America wilh over 100 years of business experience and aboul i 50 products and counting. Jell-0 got its name for a fruit-flavored gelatin in 1897.5. Are they nuts?Are they mad?Nuts here is adjective and an informal or slang term for mentally irregular.6. God forbida

8、 phrase expressing the desire that God would forbid the situation that the speaker has just mentioned from ever happening但愿不要如此、千万别如此、苍天不容7. We'd never get the door open again!（If our refrigerator found out what our weight was,） we would never get the door open again!The sentence has subjunctive

9、 mood and indicates the author's unwillingness to have "smart'' home appliances.8. PIP, MTS , DBS , F2, JUMP AND BLANKbuttons on a television remote labeling different features of this televisionPIP = picture in picture （画中画）MTS = multi-channel television sound （多声道电视伴音）DBS = direct

10、-broadcast satellite （直播卫星）F2 may cause several menu operations to be selected （选择菜单操作）JUMP （跳台）means "jump to the next scene/channel”BLANK （空白屏幕）means blank TV screen. Comprehension （Refer to Workbook P65）Exercises （refer to Workbook PP65-77） （30 minutes）1）Give an exact reference to prove that

11、 each of the following statements is wrong.2）TranslationAssignments:1. Do supplementary exercise 5.2. Do the relevant exercises in Workbook 3. I think the technology has allowed us to do a much better job of defining where the hazards arc, where the strong shaking may be, where the bad ground is.Dav

12、id SchwartzThere are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology fbr bad purposes and if we're good people we use it fbr good purposes.Herbert SimonListening (45 minutes): Not

13、es ListeningNotes1. Motorola (美国摩托罗拉公司)a multinational telecommunications company based in Illinois, US. It was split into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011.ArrayComm Inc.(美国爱瑞通信公司)a privately-held US company incorporated in April 1992 and

14、co-founded by wireless industry pioneer Martin Cooper. It is a world leader in Multi-Antenna Signal processing.2. incarnation (in Christianity) the act of God becoming a man in Jesus. The word can also be used as a common noun to mean that something unreal or imaginary prominently displays a particu

15、lar quality or form.3. subscriber person who agrees to buy (a newspaper, a periodical, etc.) regularly over a period of time or person who rents a telephone. Please guess what this word means in the listening passage.4. adaptive antenna (自适应天 a type of smart antenna. It is “smart" because it im

16、proves on the (radilional antenna by adjusting for traffic patterns at a given time to increase signal strength and quality.5. address direct one's attention to (a problem) or tackle sth.6. unleashed unlimited or unrestrictedListeningListen to the recording and answer the following questions.1.

17、What is the significance of the first call placed by Martin Cooper to his rival?Answer: It caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place.2. According to Cooper, what kind of freedom do people demand in talking to other people? Answer: Peopl

18、e demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unrestricted by the infamous cooper wire.3. How has the portable cell phone developed to today's mobile phones?Answer: The portable cell phone made its public demonstration on April 3, 1973. Then Cooper spent ten years in bringing it to mark

19、et.4. Can you explain the following sentence in your own words?"This technology addresses what Cooper calls "the unfulfilled promise' of cellular, which should he, hut still isn 7 as reliable or affordable as wired telephonyAnswer: The technology has solved cellular's long-existing

20、 problem, in Cooper's words, (he unkept promise that cellular should be as trustworthy and cheap as wired telephony.5. What has (he adaptive antenna technology contributed to the Internet users?Answer: It increases the capacity and coverage of any cellular system, significantly lowers costs and

21、makes speech more reliable.Text I (180 minutes)(1) Pre-Reading Questions(2) General Reading(3) Background(4) Words and phrases(5) Comments on the TextText IOn Not Answering the Telephone1. Pre-Reading QuestionsThink about the following questions before you read the text.1) . Does the title of the te

22、xt strike you as unusual? Would you be inclined not to answer a telephone call at any time?2) . Does the title tell you what kind of writing the passage is, a narrative or an argument?3) . What do you think is the writer's intention in writing this article? Is he commenting on some people's

23、unwillingness to answer the telephone or is he himself giving some reasons fbr not answering the telephone?4) . Can you imagine some of the things the writer might mention in his article?2. General ReadingGo over the text rapidly once and then decide which of the following statements best sums up th

24、e content._ 1). It is not necessary to have a telephone because ill news travels just as fast as good news.J 2). The writer states his reasons for not having a telephone._ 3), The writer does not like the telephone at all.3. Background public telephone boxA public telephone box is a small structure

25、furnished with a payphone. Today public telephone boxes become fewer and fewer largely due to (he increased usage of mobile phones. the Bible(The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible)The Bible is the account of God's action in the world and his purpose with all creation. The writing of the B

26、ible took place over sixteen centuries and is the work of over forty human authors. It is a quite amazing collection of 66 books with very different styles. This compilation of booklets contains an astonishing variety of literary styles. 1( provides many stories about (he lives of good and bad peopl

27、e, about battles and journeys, about the life of Jesus along with letters written to groups of Christians that met in homes.4. Words and phrases:(1) ring sb. up: call someone on the telephonee.g. I will ring her up when I reach home after the long journey.When is the best lime to ring you up?(2) tak

28、e sth. for granted: expect something to be available all the time and forget that it is lucky tohave ite.g. Today young people take so many things for granted in this country like having hot water whenever they need it.Wc take it for granted that our children will be better off than wc arc.(3) propo

29、se: v. suggest something as a plan or course of actione.g. The government is about to propose some changes to some institutions soon. It was a hard decision for the president to propose the package solution.(4) attempt: v. try to do something, especially something difficulte.g. In this article the a

30、uthor attempts to explain what led up to the war.The only lime that they attempted to do something like that was in the city of New York.(5) pose: v. behave in an insincere or exaggerated way to make a particular impression on otherpeoplee.g. He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing p

31、retentiously.She loves to pose when men are around.(6) pest: n. an annoying thing or persone.g. Tell that boy to stay away from here. He is such a pest.That child is an absolute pest. He keeps ringing the doorbell and (hen running away.(7) suspense: n. a feeling or state of excitement or anxiety abo

32、ut something that is going to happenvery soone.g. Come on then, tell me what happened; the suspense is killing me.The patient's parents waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.(8) irritating: a. annoyinge.g. She told me that Tom was the most irritating man she had ever met.Students

33、, habitual tardiness is irritating to their teachers.(9) engaged: a. (a telephone or a telephone line) already being used by someone else so that theperson one is phoning cannot be reachede.g. I tried (o call you back but you were engaged.The number is engaged at the moment. Try again in five minute

34、s.(10) horrible: a. very unpleasant and often frightening, worrying, or upsettingc.g. I have a horrible feeling that wc'rc going to miss the plane.August is so horrible (hat even dedicated psychiatrists abandon posts and patients for the entire month.(11) asphyxiate: v. prevent someone from brea

35、thing normally, usually so that they diee.g. Il was reported that an old man died in his bath, asphyxiated by the fumes from a gas water-heater.Unfortunately, all the people working in the coalmine were asphyxiated by the bad gas.(12) stale: a. (air) not fresh or pleasant, (food) no longer fresh or

36、good to eate.g. I did this to remove the horrible stale cigarette smell from our car the previous owners smoked heavily in it.The owner of the bakery had to empty sacks of stale rye bread into the vat.(13) unventilated: a. no fresh air getting into (a room or building)e.g. That explosion was set off

37、 by an accumulation of gas in an unventilated tunnel.She asked me to wear protective gloves and never use cleaning products in an unventilated area.(14) chill: v. make sb. feel very cold; suddenly frighten someone, especially by seeming very cruelor violente.g. Soon after I sal on the marble seat in

38、 the wintry garden, it was beginning to chill me. The anger in his face chilled her.(15) fidget: v. keep moving one's hands or feet, especially because he or she is bored or nervous e.g. One myth people believe is that wc fidget more when wc lie. Actually, the opposite istrue.People don't ac

39、tually fidget or look away when they're lying.(16) strong-niinded: a. not easily influenced by other people to change what you believe or want=determinede.g. He is so strong minded that nothing can bring him to his knees. The strong-minded rarely follow the crowd.(17) dazed: a. unable to think c

40、learly, especially because of a shock, accident, etc.e.g. At the end of the long interview I was dazed and exhausted.The frightened girl looked dazed and remained speechless fbr the rest of the day.(18) apace: ad. happening quicklyc.g. The business has been growing apace for the last year.If red the

41、 sun begins his race, expect that rain will flow apace.(19) indiscreet: a. careless about what one says or does, especially by talking about things whichshould be kept secretc.g. Making an exceptionally high profit is sometimes indiscreet and asking for trouble. One indiscreet remark at the wrong mo

42、ment could ruin (he whole plan.(20) inquisitive: a. asking too many questions and trying (o find out loo many details aboutsomething or someone; interested in a lot of different things and wanting to find out more about theme.g. Excuse me, I do not want to seem inquisitive, but what exactly are you

43、doing?We still have a lot to learn about life, medicine, and healing but we need to approach these things with an open, inquisitive mind.(21) chatterbox: n. someone, especially a child, who talks too muche.g. My aunt is a chatterbox who never shuts up.I remember when I was studying in college, all m

44、y professors acted like chatterboxes repeating zero tolerance for plagiarism in any writing assignments and academic papers in any course.(22) fatal: a. resulting in someone's deathe.g. This type of allergy can very occasionally be fatal. Nervousness or anxiety is in most cases a fatal killer of

45、 success.(23) obstinacy: n. resolute adherence to one's own ideas or desirese.g. I resisted their proposal with obstinacy.Sheer obstinacy prevented him from apologizing.(24) willfulness: n. the trait of being prone lo disobedience and lack of disciplinec.g. I refuse to stand by and see the compa

46、ny allowed to run aground because of one person's willfulness.For most parents, occasional willfulness is tolerable, but continual willfulness can create a problem as it quickly gathers shaping power of its own.(25) escapism: n. an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversi

47、on or fantasy e.g. Suicide is regarded as the ultimate act of escapism by some people.Books were a form of escapism from the real world.(26) justify: v. show or prove that something is reasonable or necessaiye.g. I don't have to justify myself to you or anyone else.Many reasons have been put for

48、ward to justify the imposition of censorship.(27) aptitude: n. natural ability or skill, especially in learningc.g. In language learning it is attitude, not aptitude, that determines success.He has demonstrated a great aptitude for carpentry skills.(28) slip: n. a small or nairow piece of papere.g.

49、The odd thing is, when the poster arrived, there was a slip of paper telling me there was no receipt included.My friend wrote down his address and telephone number on a slip of paper.Notes1. Why don't I have a telephone? Not because 1 pretend to be wise or pose as unusual.Here is an ordinary que

50、stion followed by the writer's own answers and explanations. The ordinary question and answer is a rhetorical device to begin a paragraph or to organize small units of an essay. The second question in the same paragraph “Why don't I like the telephone?" leads to further explanations on

51、the part of the writer.2. Ill news travels apace.We may also say: Bad news has wings.Bad news travels quickly.Ill news flies fast.3. The truth will out.The truth will become publicly known. This is a proverb, and out here is an intransitive verb.4. when you take oft' the receiver, you give your

52、number or your nameIn some countries, the receiver of a telephone call lifts the receiver and gives his own number or name to the one who makes the call. This is not often done in China.4. a successful book so often reprinted as to make any author enviousa successful hook which is so often reprinted

53、 that it can make any author envious.e.g. Robert and Kate were so clever in steering lhe conversation as to have the old man easily tricked.The hitch-hiker was so careful about his clothing as to attract immediate atieniion.6. a book more in evidence than Shakespeare or the Biblea book which is more

54、 often seen or used than either Shakespeare's works, which are very famous, or the Bible, which is the sacred writings of the Christian religion and which every Christian owns7. It serves you right.It's your own fault. The Chinese equivalent of the sentence can be “ 你活该".8. (be) bent on

55、 questioning you(be) determined to question you. Bent here is an adjective.c.g. She is bent on becoming a good pianist.He is bent on making journalism his career.9. bed-ridden卧床不起的This is a compound adjective formed by a noun and an -ed participle. More examples: weather-beaten (饱经风霜的),panic-stricke

56、n (惊慌失措的)10. there are two things for which the English seem to show particular aptitudethere arc two things that the English seem to be able to do especiallyShow aptitude for means "have the ability to do something".e.g. Mozart showed particular aptitude fbr music when he was young.Lenin

57、was a man of unparalleled virtue and talents, but wha( struck me most was his particular aptitude he showed for foreign languages.Comments on the TextThis text is an argumentative essay in which the writer argues for a proposition: that it is unnecessary lo have a telephone because il brings more tr

58、ouble than help. He makes his argument effective by setting forth clearly what is to be proved and what he is against. The way he develops his argument is inductive, that is, he uses large numbers of examples to prove his point. The writer divides his essay into three major parts.1. Introduction. Th

59、e first paragraph serves as the introduction to the essay. Here he puts forward a premise on which he bases his argument. The sentence "I just haven't got a tclcphonc., most clearly establishes the subject and draws the reader into the essay.2. The body. The body of the essay consists of five sections (Paras. 2